
Successful collaboration Manish Arora and Amrei Hofstätter
While the clothes are coming off this side of the world, it’s all about the layers over in Europe. Colour, textures and crazy patterns too. It’s the Fall/Winter 2011-12 Ready-to-wear show of Manish Arora, who was inspired by the free spirit of a woman, one who is part gypsy and part new-age style icon. Meet the...

THE LANGUAGE OF SWING
‘One, step! Two, step! Three, step!’ commands the dance instructor on the night of Saturday the 28th August. It is the eight o’clock dance class, which seamlessly advances into a night of Swing on in… at Club Voom Voom – and now the third Swing event hosted by culturetalent. Couples and their feet seem to liven up...

WeSC x RZA: Chambers
The idea of collaboration between a hip-hop legend and fashion is hardly a new idea, but when it looks as good as the WeSC x RZA line, scheduled for Oct 2011, it’s hard not to get excited.

Treading Finite Boundaries: Art as Fashion and Fashion as Art
In an industry where the emphasis has been on economy of cost and efficiency of production, it is utterly refreshing to find someone who flagrantly disregards both. Imbued with dollops of style and brain in equal measure, Jacqueline Nurse is setting the foundation for a new school of thought through her latest endeavour called The...

Visual Dialogue on Twenty Two
Vuyiswa Mutshekwane, better known as Vie among Joburg’s cool kids, is a radiant young woman who owns the boutique store Twenty Two, situated on the colourful strip of Juta Street, Braamfontein. Another brainchild of Vie’s is Fashion Fridays: a monthly event held at Twenty Two where fashion, art, music and a fashion crowd collide to...

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Puma/Kehinde Wiley Fashion Shoot: Afro-Gazing
In celebration of Puma’s longstanding corroboration of African football, the global ‘sports lifestyle’ brand commissioned prominent New York artist Kehinde Wiley to create artworks in honour of the beautiful game and its African superstars. For our fashion section in Winter 2010, one small seed constructed a shoot inspired by his art, featuring the Puma Africa...

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Project Aiko: Rise of the Machines
In issue 19 of one small seed, our feature fashion spread ‘Project Aiko: Rise of the Machines’ shows an exquisite collection by renowned local haute-couture fashion designer Hendrik Vermeulen, adorned by breathtakingly beautiful… female robots. With one small seed editor-in-chief Giuseppe Russo as art director, and photographer Stephen Greeff working his magic behind the lens,...

Flashback | Mean Street | Issue14
Photography: Neil Roberts @ Infidels Styling: Ryan Forster Hair & Make-Up: Miriam Jochims @Infidels for Mac & Aveda Photographers Assistants: Danielle Klopper Models: Hannes @ Fusion Models Petra @ Zero Models Read the rest of issue 14 Open publication – Free publishing – More south africa Click here to view our #flashBack selection for September....

FlashBack | Shunnoz Tekasala | Issue11
‘You might want to rethink the fashion angle. There’s not a whole lot happening up here’ or something along those lines was how I broke it to the editor. After four days of walking the streets of Luanda I hadn’t exactly seen any imminent catwalk sensations. ‘Knock-off Hip-Hop Athletique’ seemed to be the prevailing mode...

issue 4 online
Open publication – Free publishing – More adobe ISSUE 04 FEATURES: PHOTOGRAPHY: LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE: ZURICH ARCHITECTURE ART: CULTURAL EXCHANGE DESIGN: DESIGNERS WHO DO FONTS DESIGN/LIFESTYLE: ROOM 13 ARTIST PROFILE: ROXANNE SILVERWOOD ARTIST PROFILE: HIDDEN GENIUS: NIKHIL SINGH FASHION DESIGN: FABRIC! ARCHITECTURE: PLASTIC FACTORY ARCHITECTURE: INFILL HOUSE LIFESTYLE/DESIGN: RE-THINKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT ART:...